Asit Modha
About
Asit Modha is from San Francisco Bay Area. Asit works in the following industries: "Internet", "Food & Beverages", "Consumer Goods", and "Food Production". Asit is currently Director - Packaging at Clif Bar & Company, located in San Francisco Bay Area. In Asit's previous role as a Head of Packaging - Fresh Food at Amazon, Asit worked in Seattle, Washington until Aug 2021. Prior to joining Amazon, Asit was a Director - Packaging & Product Value Enginerring at McCain Foods and held the position of Director - Packaging & Product Value Enginerring at Greater Chicago Area. Prior to that, Asit was a Director - Packaging R&D at PepsiCo, based in Greater Chicago Area from Jan 2015 to May 2018. Asit started working as Senior Manager at PepsiCo in Greater Chicago Area in May 2012. From Jan 2011 to Apr 2012, Asit was Head of Beverage Packaging at PepsiCo, based in London, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Asit was a Packaging Innovation Manager at PepsiCo from Aug 2007 to May 2011. Asit started working as Packaging Constructional Design Manager at Cadbury Schweppes in Paris Area, France in Aug 2005.
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Asit Modha's current jobs
Asit Modha's past jobs
Responsible for startup businesses in the fresh food category across all retail channels (Whole Foods, Fresh, GO, E-commerce) Leading a newly created packaging team, defining short and long-term strategies for innovation and sustainability. Building processes, resources, budget and organizational design. Highly ambiguous high growth segment, with new physical stores plus e-commerce. Front end, insight and consumer centric design thinking.
Responsible for equipment, product & packaging value engineering for McCain foods (+$4BN) business. Driving costs saving initiatives +$15M, creating strategy, investigating new technologies and mapping out value opportunities to improve profitability. Lead a large, complex multi-disciplinary team to deliver both short & longterm cost targets. Directing large B2B customers, to understand business drivers to improve margin, volume and profitability.
Responsibility for Nutrition brands (+$2BN in revenue). Led the integration of M&A activity into the portfolio, new ventures / high growth opportunities. Accountable for R&D team, managers & engineers, objective setting, hiring, performance management and resource allocation. Deliver annual plan, on time & budget. Build long term plan for packaging innovation, aligned to business priorities by partnering across the business. R&D lead for design function interface.
Responsible for global packaging across juice & dairy portfolio. Accountable for long term innovation, to create, define & build exucutional plans, identify technology platforms and build capital estimates. Identify global productivity / value engineering opportunities, working with regional partners & suppliers. Lead process improvemnets for innovation commercilization.
Responsible for commercializing packaging innovation, across Eastern & Western Europe, developed & emerging markets. Budget of +$1.5M with a team of +6 remotely located, define and implement best practices across the region. Drive process standardization and create efficiencies. Define the sustainability agenda and improve impact of materials.
Accountable for packaging development across Western Europe business’s (UK, France, Spain, Germany). Responsible to deliver annual innovation plans, managed budget, and act as key R&D technology partner.
Responsible for all Gum & Candy brands (Trident, Trebor, Dentyne, Stimorol) across Europe. Led a team of 4 engineers, to deliver annual innovation & plans. Regional lead for all formats & sales channels. Accountable for value enginerring across entire Region.